From: Sean Middleditch <smiddle@twp.ypsilanti.mi.us>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APM/ACPI
Date: 02 Nov 2001 13:56:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1004727406.4883.51.camel@smiddle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111021039130.15166-100000@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111021039130.15166-100000@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net>
Alrighty! Thank you! I'll play around and see if I can't get it to
work. I don't really care about suspend and whatnot at the moment, I
just want a warning when my battery is getting low. ~,^
Sean Etc.
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 13:42, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> On 2 Nov 2001, Sean Middleditch wrote:
>
> > Hmm, not to point fingers or anything, but...
> >
> > "The WindowsXP that came preinstalled supported it!"
>
> Windows XP requires systems to be fully ACPI (1.0b?) compliant. So, you
> probably have an ACPII BIOS, though many BIOSes have some remnants of APM
> left in them...
>
> > I dunno, perhaps there is some proprietary protocol? Is ACPI backwards
> > compat with APM? I mean, if the laptop doesn't support APM, would that
> > mean it can't support ACPI?
>
> Probably not, no, and no. ACPI support in Linux is still maturing, and
> many things still do not work. I would recommend the ACPI mailing list and
> archives for more assistance:
>
> http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/index.html
>
>
> -pat
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-02 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 18:23 APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-02 18:34 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-02 18:31 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-02 18:42 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-02 18:41 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-02 18:50 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-05 2:49 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
2001-11-05 8:49 ` APM/ACPI Alan Cox
2001-11-05 21:34 ` APM/ACPI Mike Panetta
2001-11-02 18:42 ` APM/ACPI Patrick Mochel
2001-11-02 18:56 ` Sean Middleditch [this message]
2001-11-05 4:06 APM/ACPI Grover, Andrew
2001-11-05 13:28 ` APM/ACPI Sean Middleditch
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